Amarnath Land Deal

[Capt M Kumar]

<!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo--> The damage that Mr Patil and his ministry have done will have adverse repercussions. Fruit growers are not accepting the compensation so magnanimously offered by Mr Patil. First, because very little fruit has been ruined and second, trucks have been moving out of the Valley. By contradicting himself, Mr Patil managed to simply earn bad publicity for the Centre.

Given the suspicion that the Centre is viewed with, this was the last thing the Congress-led government needed. Not only was the suspicion reinforced, but in Jammu, Mr Patil became the embodiment of the ‘discriminatory practices’ of the Centre. Headlines in Jammu drew attention to this discrimination by highlighting the “compensation for the Valley and bullets for Jammu[SIZE=7][COLOR=red] <!--emo&:devil--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/devilsmiley.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='devilsmiley.gif' /><!--endemo--> .” All this making it more difficult to diffuse the crisis in the state.

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